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Ask HN: Any open source or hackable food scales?

3 pointsby sail0rm00nover 3 years ago
COVID has gotten the best of my weight gain and I want to work on a food tracking app using a scale. Any tips for already hacked scales?

2 comments

dinklebergover 3 years ago
I can&#x27;t help with your question directly, but if you&#x27;re thinking of turning this into a business I&#x27;d caution that measuring foods isn&#x27;t the hard part. I&#x27;ve been tracking what I eat for years using a food scale and it couldn&#x27;t be simpler. There is a bit of friction to overcome when you first get started, but that goes away almost instantly.<p>The bigger problems are knowing what to eat and how much of it to eat.<p>And related to measuring, understanding how to measure it properly. Do you track it dry or cooked? And when you cook let&#x27;s say a steak with a 1&#x2F;4 inch of fat on it, but you don&#x27;t eat the fat, how do you track that? And how do you track the oil you cooked it with?
dairyleeover 3 years ago
Nutrio (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aurora-nutrio.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aurora-nutrio.com</a>) was doing the rounds on Twitter recently for being an utterly ridiculous product.